[3.0] DoT Pact (Minion Dark pact with Poison!)

Disclaimer!! - Dark Pact is based on the Maximum health of the minion and NOT the current health.

Mandatory Items:

- 7 link (40% poison chance)

- 60% chance to poison

- summon 3 skeletons at once

Purpose of the build:

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My attempt to make a poison build using Dark pact with high single target damage.

Pros:
-Can do shaper and all guardians (chimera is hard though)
-high damage scaling
-build can be done cheap (with a 5L)
-many layers to scale the poison damage with

Cons:
-Difficult to get the required dexterity for the armour
-becomes expensive when doing end-game content
-requires good timing and uses several skills
-not very beginner friendly

How it Works:

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Short summary:

-The build summons high life skeletons, then casts dark pact which chains between the skeletons and inflicts massive DoT through poison stacks.

Detailed Explanation:

1) Summon Skeleton is supported by a helm with +2 minions and empower, potentially reaching level 26. With minion life nodes on the tree and jewels, the Skeletons achieve roughly 9500 hp. Using the jewel 'From Dust', 3 skeletons are summoned at once instead of 1, but there is a 1 second cooldown (which isnt even noticeable).

2)

The Consuming Dark provides 60% chance to poison (mine is legacy, so it looks different).

Dendrobate provides a free Lesser Poison support (40% chance to poison) so that we always poison every hit. This armour also massively boosts both poison duration and poison damage.

3) Dark pact is supported by DoT/ailment modifiers as well as Chain. Since we do not rely on the hit damage so much, The 'less damage with hits' modifier has no effect while greatly boosting our poison stacking.

4) Spell totem linked with wither is used for a large damage boost against bosses.

5) Temporal chains is boosted by enhance and blasphemy to slow enemies dramatically. TC also causes poison stacks to last longer.

6)

Vulnerability is best applied using the corrupted gloves, however you can also use a blasphemy setup.

Note - do not get minion instability, this kills the skeletons early which can lead to you not having enough minions out to chain properly. The damage bonus from MI is insignificant.

There are two main ways to play the build

1) Full hybrid

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Requires the corrupted vulnerability gloves. Also uses discipline. This method provides the highest health-pool and works in tandem with the Occultist Recharge node.

2) Semi-Hybrid with MoM

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Lower ES pool, however it has a large mana pool and does not require Discipline Aura. This method frees up a gem slot if needed and is very close, if not on par in defence to full hybrid.

Sick meme dude. This is a really cruel joke you're playing. Tricking people into using a build that uses the chain gem. What the F is wrong with you my dude? Why would you deliberately make a less good version of self cast DP Zerker? Did you study memeology at your local community college or do you meme as a hobby? You even have a video showing people how horribly bad your build is and you're presenting it like it's a viable option in any capacity? That's just sick and cruel. You don't know who's going to stumble on your post and see this build and waste their time clearing a map slower than the reverse attack speed leap slam build where you actually travel back in time by the time the leap lands. This is disgusting. I don't know why GGG doesn't have moderates for this sort of thing. You think you can just troll post a build here and trick people into playing it? Well I got news for you, buddy.

Here's a Reddit PSA for you guys; If you're playing DP as anything other than a Zerker using The Retch you're not playing the video game correctly. Hope this helps. Downvoted this build to infinity.